# The Metaphysics A map of the human psyche consisting of the [[4 Elements]], the [[Stages]], [[Intelligences]], [[Dimensions|States]], and [[Archetypes]]. Throughout the course of Biological Evolution, each of our 7 major ancestors, Cells, Fish, Reptiles, Mammals, Primates, Early Humans, and Modern humans, gave us each a new **Level** or Drive, **State** or Tier of Awareness, Line of **Intelligence**, and **Type** of emotional spectrum. This being with 7 layers consisting of 4 Elements each — the 4-fold layers are knows as "Chakras" in the Ancestor System — called the Modern Human, emerged around 50 thousand years ago in East Africa, and with its newfound mental powers quickly conquered the whole globe. These humans then went through various stages of Cultural Evolution, of which we are still actively undergoing. Each of us today include these 7 layers of Biological Evolution, and depending on our personal level of development (which is often a result of our surrounding culture's), some or most of the levels of Cultural Evolution as well. --- The goal of this wiki is to primarily document the Metaphysics, as that is what I have completed so far. Thus to learn about the Metaphysics, explore the Wiki! --- # Discovery Method The Ancestor System was made by [[Ari Nazem]] primarily over the period from August 2022 - the present (Spring 2024). Ari: I don't regard the system as something I "made," but rather something that found and then I mapped, similar to early cartographers. These findings were, and are still done, in altered states of consciousness, that is, during meditation, trance, dreaming, or shamanic journeying. This is why I call myself a Shaman as opposed to a philosopher, as these insights are not things I thought of mentally, but things I actively witnessed and SAW using the eyes of my body, heart, mind and spirit. The actual things I discovered don't come in groups of 7, they are simply spectrums. For example, in my early explorations in I first saw 4 clusters of energy within my human being: an area deep down in me thinking about the health of the body, food, water, warmth, sex; an area around the heart interested in esteem, belonging, love, harmony; an area around my head or mind concerned with understanding, reason, clarity; and an area around or above my head concerned with spirit, connection to something bigger, meaning, final purpose, a feeling of things being RIGHT. Upon diving deeper into this, I found these were simply pit-stops on the World Tree, the Axis Mundi, or Spine of the World, that run through me. The Tree continued down below Ari Nazem's body into the lower dimensions, and beyond me into realms that transcend Ari Nazem. There is no strict number of these in my experience, and their boundaries can be quite fluid. But, for sake of making sense of it to my human mind, and communicating it to others, I broke down the potential infinite dimensions into 7 I felt captured the essence of each, at a level of detail that is good enough for our human lives. I did this same process as I unpacked the clusters, which I (and many before me) call chakras, and saw that if I dove deep into the clusters they would break apart into more specific ones, like the body breaking into [[1 · 🔴 · Root|health]] and [[2 · 🟠 · Sacral|desire]], or the heart separating into [[3 · 🟡 · Plexus|esteem]] and [[4 · 💚 · Heart|love]]. I then was able to look into these, and watch them separate even further, separating into the fundamental [[Stages|need]] they are concerned with, the [[Intelligences|intelligence]] that oversees that need, and the [[Archetypes|emotional spectrum]] that cluster is sensitive to. Then, with this basic skeleton of the system, I continued to go about my practices and interactions, putting myself in many edge case and mundane scenarios, and seeing what happened inside of me. Over time, through almost 2 years of this work, I have refined the system every single day, making it more accurate as a map of what I have experienced and observed. During this time, I also shared it with a group of brothers, the Ancestor Collective, and they put it to use in their lives, giving feedback and refining it themselves. The result is a collaboratively made map of this reality we inhabit, derived from an internal, subjective experience. Thus, it can be used to help diagnose and classify things going on in the internal world (as well as that of others, and cultures at large), and serve as a map of where to focus self-healing and self-development efforts.